The wild-goose chase. : A comedie as it hath been acted with singular applause at the Black-Friers: : being the noble, last, and onely remaines of those incomparable drammatists, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gent. Retriv'd for the publick delight of all the ingenious and private benefit of John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, servants to His late Majestie
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Title: The wild-goose chase. : A comedie as it hath been acted with singular applause at the Black-Friers: : being the noble, last, and onely remaines of those incomparable drammatists, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gent. Retriv'd for the publick delight of all the ingenious and private benefit of John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, servants to His late Majestie
Other titles: The wild goose chase
Classmark: BC Lt quarto BEA
Creator(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625)
Additional creator(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) (Other); Lowin, John (1576-1659) (Other); Taylor, Joseph (1586?-1653?) (Other)
Publisher: printed for Humpherey Moseley
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1652
Language: English
Size and medium: 9 unnumbered pages, 56 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/271649
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018114579705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Acted at court in 1621, but not printed until 1652. In 1647 when the folio of Beaumont's and Fletcher's works was published, this play was omitted, as it had long been lost and was supposed to be irrecoverable. Cf. Preface to edition of 1647; Cambridge hist. of Eng. lit.; and Dyce, A. Works of Beaumont & Fletcher, 1845, v. 8, p. 102.
Written by Fletcher alone. Cf. The dedication.
"The dedication to the honour'd, few, lovers of drammatick poesie" signed: John Lowin, Joseph Taylor.
First ed. Cf. Wing.
Indexed in: Wing B1616.
Additional description
With the bookplate of William Marchbank
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